Shit like this is why you should always travel in heavily-armed groups.
TSA goons may have no qualms about taking out one 'wacko' with a gun, but 20 of them (or, even better, an entire airport full) all traveling together will force them to reconsider their position.
Our forefathers made sure we had a right to keep and carry weapons, to ensure we would always have a means of throwing off the shackles of tyranny - let's not disappoint them.
Won't work unless the entire population rises up at once...which won't happen anytime soon if ever. Anything less than a full revolution would be an armed insurrection and itself classified, no doubt, as terrorism.
In order to get the majority of the population on board, we have to start small; what will at first be considered "isolated incidents" will eventually bloom into full-blown civil disobedience, and they'll have to listen or feel the public's wrath. Oh, and no letting the media and political camps demonize/co-opt the movement for their own purposes - we have to treat them all as the enemy, until they prove themselves friends.
Millions sounds like a lot until you realize that France, with it's population of only 60 million, had 6 million people demonstrating against some employment contract changes the government was going to put into place.
Which sounds reasonable, until you realize that France is, geographically speaking, tiny compared to the U.S.A (~260,000 sq. mi. vs ~3,800,000 sq. mi.). Getting 6 million people to descend on the capital, when it's a few hundred miles from the furthest national border, is a hell of a lot easier logistically than doing so in a nation where the furthest border is several thousand miles away.
OWS was a beginning, but wasn't strong enough to work given how the deck is stacked.
OWS would have been great if 2 things would have happened differently:
1) Instead of allowing themselves to be portrayed by the corporate media as nothing more than a bunch of lazy, narcissistic hippies who had no idea what they were really protesting, but the actual 99.96%, people like you and me (and even a lot of rich fucks who don't realize they're getting screwed over, too), who are the ones getting the shaft here, and
2) Had OWS and the Tea Party come to the realization that their goals were quite similar, and joined forces. The cops would have been far more cautious about their use of excessive force on said lazy hippies, had there been a contingent of well-armed small government advocates to get through first.
I really hope some of the companies out there (HBO especially, I needs my Game of Thrones fix) figure out other ways of getting money from customers. I wouldn't want to see the shows I like cut back or eliminated if the tv/cable networks go the way of newspapers. So, dear cable/tv companies: We have money, we want to support your art. Let's figure something out!
I.e., don't be douche bags and try to tie your loyal fans into antiquated distribution methods that we, the consumers who drive the economy and thus are your bottom line, have repeatedly and soundly rebuffed.
My point is that killing a bunch of people, which is what you were obviously implying, is not going to solve anything.
"A bunch of people" is a subjective, relative term; I take it by your use of it, you are implying either A) that you yourself believe a large number of our politicians are corrupted to the point of warranting public execution, or B) you're being a hyperbolic ninny in an attempt to discredit me.
FYI, your opinion would carry far more weight if you were capable of positing your own solution, instead of shitting on everyone else's like some whiny troll.
If you think conservatives are civil libertarians then I have no idea what to say to you.
Today's conservatives believe for absolute freedom of corporations that that's it. They have absolutely no care for any other freedoms save MAYBE the 2nd amendment. They don't care about any individuals rights... just whatever gets their corporate buddies a bit more money.
No; those are called Neo-Cons, and in no way does their liberal bullshit reflect upon those of us who truly fit the classic definition of a political conservative.
The idea that those who believe in small and limited government actually think there should be no government is a common and worn out liberal straw-man argument.
Sometimes I think this election is going to be (For Me) about fucking the country up faster or fucking it up slower.
I 100% agree that Obama will fuck this country up faster.
I might still vote for him though.
Maybe if the country gets screwed up fast enough we will not sit in the hot water till it is too late.
I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Sure, he may have privatized a bunch of prisons in his state, but he's also a big advocate of not putting drug users and other minor, non-violent offenders in said prisons.
If the only people in jail are violent assholes who should be separated from the rest of society, I really don't give two shits how they're treated. Hell, make 'em battle to the death for our entertainment, should be able to finance the whole endeavor and then some...
Shit like this is why you should always travel in heavily-armed groups.
TSA goons may have no qualms about taking out one 'wacko' with a gun, but 20 of them (or, even better, an entire airport full) all traveling together will force them to reconsider their position.
Our forefathers made sure we had a right to keep and carry weapons, to ensure we would always have a means of throwing off the shackles of tyranny - let's not disappoint them.
Every time I fly and am faced with a body scanner, I make a big stink about how I want a pat down. I make the stink loud enough that it shocks 1 or 2 people into doing the same. I say things like, "I read the MIT/Standford/Yale reports that these have not been deemed safe." Putting that little bit of fear in others who are less technically inclined but know who MIT/Standford/Yale is will sometimes follow you through a pat down.
And to add insult to injury, I wear my megusta face during the pat down.
Agree. Fuck Bush for the creation of the TSA.
The creation of the TSA and pushing for the Patriot Act are the 2 worst things he ever did.
Also though. Fuck Obama for his protection of the TSA and the fact that he allows the patriot act to continue on.
Bush created these travesties, but make no mistake. Obama uses them for his benefit.
If you think Obama should be shielded from a fuck him as well because he did not start it you are a fool.
Future-proofing: Fuck Romney, too, for his (if elected) inevitable continuation and likely expansion of the same fucked up, anti-American policies*.
*This should, in no way, be construed as an endorsement for Obama - fuck that elitist asshole as well.
The quality and accuracy of some articles is great. I would think that most "core" subjects that get a lot of viewers will tend to be of high quality. However look at the entry for so meting obscure, like the town I live in, and you might find something strange. At times there have been mistakes, now corrected - but there is still an odd balance. There is a lot of detail on railway lines that used to go to the station, and what destinations you could reach from the trains.There is a lack of detail on the current geography and economy. Things are driven by people's interests.
Also, any subject (such as, say, Presidential candidates) that is/can be politicized is likely to be suspect
Those devices also have classically proven effective at removing the other guy's corruption, while increasing the power of your own corruption.
Your point, assuming you have one?
"Let's leave things fucked up, because the people who want to fix it might, eventually, fuck it up too" is not a legitimate rationale for allowing known corruption to exist.
What would we need to do to make this kind of shit illegal? A law? A constitutional amendment? I don't think it would be too hard to get 2/3 of Americans to agree that any amendment or rider to a bill should be relevant to that bill's stated purpose.
At this point we're left with few options, although thesedevices have classically proven effective at eliminating political corruption.
now, if only we can find a way to convinced the doped-up masses to actually use them...
They made a very short post, which you could infer various different things from. To me, "technological shithole" with regards to apartment shopping means that it isn't very helpful in that pursuit, and that is indeed the case, since they can't even be bothered to use a map like any decent site. It has nothing to do with "simplistic coding", but with a lack of actual utility in the site. Of course, "simplistic coding" does correlate to that to a certain extent, because you can't create a sophisticated site that shows apartments on a draggable map unless you do some fairly sophisticated coding on both the front and back ends (i.e., you have to do AJAX), but this extends well beyond simple style issues that you seem to be pointing to.
Gonna have to take your word on that one, my web development knowledge is limited to HTML 1 (but I'm learning 5!).
Craigslist isn't like this. It looks like shit, but worse, it performs like shit, because it really isn't very helpful in actually helping you find a place to live.
Again, going to have to take your word for it, never actually used CL for housing searches... We have some pretty good local services that offer printed booklets of rentals in the area, and for home searches, well, you just can't beat MLS.
And now that some sites like PadMapper have sprung up and use CL's data to actually make apartment-hunting easy for people, the assholes at CL are trying to stop them, instead of fixing their shitty site.
I don't know, I kind of understand CL's angle on this... They did the work to gather the data; they live off people visiting their site; therefore, if someone else is using the data CL worked to gather, and uses that data to take page views (read: customers) away from CL, then I feel they have a legitimate complaint*. Anyone scraping CL for content, in order to populate their own site (and subsequently make money off the scraped data) should have to license it from CL, or at the very least, have their listings link directly back to the page on CL they scraped for the info.
*Truth time: I miss the days when the internet wasn't a global sales floor; shit's really gone downhill now that data is marketable...
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Dont ask how i know. ;)
By making it up?
He probably works for BART and doesn't want to get lynched.
Metro : US and French name for an underground railway system, aka Underground, Tube, Subway, etc .etc .etc ...
Also, in US at least, slang term for a straight guy who acts/dresses like a homosexual.
Shit like this is why you should always travel in heavily-armed groups.
TSA goons may have no qualms about taking out one 'wacko' with a gun, but 20 of them (or, even better, an entire airport full) all traveling together will force them to reconsider their position.
Our forefathers made sure we had a right to keep and carry weapons, to ensure we would always have a means of throwing off the shackles of tyranny - let's not disappoint them.
Won't work unless the entire population rises up at once...which won't happen anytime soon if ever. Anything less than a full revolution would be an armed insurrection and itself classified, no doubt, as terrorism.
In order to get the majority of the population on board, we have to start small; what will at first be considered "isolated incidents" will eventually bloom into full-blown civil disobedience, and they'll have to listen or feel the public's wrath. Oh, and no letting the media and political camps demonize/co-opt the movement for their own purposes - we have to treat them all as the enemy, until they prove themselves friends.
Millions sounds like a lot until you realize that France, with it's population of only 60 million, had 6 million people demonstrating against some employment contract changes the government was going to put into place.
Which sounds reasonable, until you realize that France is, geographically speaking, tiny compared to the U.S.A (~260,000 sq. mi. vs ~3,800,000 sq. mi.). Getting 6 million people to descend on the capital, when it's a few hundred miles from the furthest national border, is a hell of a lot easier logistically than doing so in a nation where the furthest border is several thousand miles away.
OWS was a beginning, but wasn't strong enough to work given how the deck is stacked.
OWS would have been great if 2 things would have happened differently:
1) Instead of allowing themselves to be portrayed by the corporate media as nothing more than a bunch of lazy, narcissistic hippies who had no idea what they were really protesting, but the actual 99.96%, people like you and me (and even a lot of rich fucks who don't realize they're getting screwed over, too), who are the ones getting the shaft here, and
2) Had OWS and the Tea Party come to the realization that their goals were quite similar, and joined forces. The cops would have been far more cautious about their use of excessive force on said lazy hippies, had there been a contingent of well-armed small government advocates to get through first.
Easiest habit I ever kicked.
Cable free since July? You haven't even gone two days yet.
Well, to be fair, I went without for about 5 years before signing up for the deal I just cancelled, so I doubt it will be much of an issue.
Obviously, he meant December, 7 A.D.
Obviously!
Considering that one can apparently get better, live coverage by visiting the BBC via a UK proxy...
Fuck NBC. Let them strangle themselves. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Easiest habit I ever kicked.
I really hope some of the companies out there (HBO especially, I needs my Game of Thrones fix) figure out other ways of getting money from customers. I wouldn't want to see the shows I like cut back or eliminated if the tv/cable networks go the way of newspapers. So, dear cable/tv companies: We have money, we want to support your art. Let's figure something out!
I.e., don't be douche bags and try to tie your loyal fans into antiquated distribution methods that we, the consumers who drive the economy and thus are your bottom line, have repeatedly and soundly rebuffed.
The idea that those who believe in small and limited government actually think is common
FTFY
hmm, that might be clever, if not so childish and pedantic.
So, what's wrong with preferring small, limited-scope government, as opposed to the ever-expanding, expensive, bloated oppression machine we have now?
They should just call it Fox Newsing.
Aw, shucks, beat me to it...
My point is that killing a bunch of people, which is what you were obviously implying, is not going to solve anything.
"A bunch of people" is a subjective, relative term; I take it by your use of it, you are implying either A) that you yourself believe a large number of our politicians are corrupted to the point of warranting public execution, or B) you're being a hyperbolic ninny in an attempt to discredit me.
FYI, your opinion would carry far more weight if you were capable of positing your own solution, instead of shitting on everyone else's like some whiny troll.
If you think conservatives are civil libertarians then I have no idea what to say to you.
Today's conservatives believe for absolute freedom of corporations that that's it. They have absolutely no care for any other freedoms save MAYBE the 2nd amendment. They don't care about any individuals rights... just whatever gets their corporate buddies a bit more money.
No; those are called Neo-Cons , and in no way does their liberal bullshit reflect upon those of us who truly fit the classic definition of a political conservative.
Fuckers hi-jacked our label...
The idea that those who believe in small and limited government actually think there should be no government is a common and worn out liberal straw-man argument.
FTFY.
Sometimes I think this election is going to be (For Me) about fucking the country up faster or fucking it up slower. I 100% agree that Obama will fuck this country up faster. I might still vote for him though. Maybe if the country gets screwed up fast enough we will not sit in the hot water till it is too late.
I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Sure, he may have privatized a bunch of prisons in his state, but he's also a big advocate of not putting drug users and other minor, non-violent offenders in said prisons.
If the only people in jail are violent assholes who should be separated from the rest of society, I really don't give two shits how they're treated. Hell, make 'em battle to the death for our entertainment, should be able to finance the whole endeavor and then some...
Real American Gladiators, anyone?
Shit like this is why you should always travel in heavily-armed groups.
TSA goons may have no qualms about taking out one 'wacko' with a gun, but 20 of them (or, even better, an entire airport full) all traveling together will force them to reconsider their position.
Our forefathers made sure we had a right to keep and carry weapons, to ensure we would always have a means of throwing off the shackles of tyranny - let's not disappoint them.
Every time I fly and am faced with a body scanner, I make a big stink about how I want a pat down. I make the stink loud enough that it shocks 1 or 2 people into doing the same. I say things like, "I read the MIT/Standford/Yale reports that these have not been deemed safe." Putting that little bit of fear in others who are less technically inclined but know who MIT/Standford/Yale is will sometimes follow you through a pat down. And to add insult to injury, I wear my megusta face during the pat down.
Just be sure you don't gusta too much, else they may arrest you for 'sexually assaulting' a federal agent while they're feeling you up.
You can't make this shit up...
Agree. Fuck Bush for the creation of the TSA. The creation of the TSA and pushing for the Patriot Act are the 2 worst things he ever did. Also though. Fuck Obama for his protection of the TSA and the fact that he allows the patriot act to continue on. Bush created these travesties, but make no mistake. Obama uses them for his benefit. If you think Obama should be shielded from a fuck him as well because he did not start it you are a fool.
Future-proofing: Fuck Romney, too, for his (if elected) inevitable continuation and likely expansion of the same fucked up, anti-American policies*.
*This should, in no way, be construed as an endorsement for Obama - fuck that elitist asshole as well.
The quality and accuracy of some articles is great. I would think that most "core" subjects that get a lot of viewers will tend to be of high quality. However look at the entry for so meting obscure, like the town I live in, and you might find something strange. At times there have been mistakes, now corrected - but there is still an odd balance. There is a lot of detail on railway lines that used to go to the station, and what destinations you could reach from the trains.There is a lack of detail on the current geography and economy. Things are driven by people's interests.
Also, any subject (such as, say, Presidential candidates) that is/can be politicized is likely to be suspect
Those devices also have classically proven effective at removing the other guy's corruption, while increasing the power of your own corruption.
Your point, assuming you have one?
"Let's leave things fucked up, because the people who want to fix it might, eventually, fuck it up too" is not a legitimate rationale for allowing known corruption to exist.
What would we need to do to make this kind of shit illegal? A law? A constitutional amendment? I don't think it would be too hard to get 2/3 of Americans to agree that any amendment or rider to a bill should be relevant to that bill's stated purpose.
At this point we're left with few options, although these devices have classically proven effective at eliminating political corruption.
now, if only we can find a way to convinced the doped-up masses to actually use them...
And who decides if the amendment is related to the bill or not?
Logic, maybe?
Oh, we're talking about Congress; no logic allowed.
Then Eric Schwarz must find reality damn-near impossible to navigate.
Is there more detail than "reality"?
-AI
I was thinking that, too...
That is, until I took an arrow to the knee...
*ducks*
"It is a poor craftsman, who blames his tools."
They made a very short post, which you could infer various different things from. To me, "technological shithole" with regards to apartment shopping means that it isn't very helpful in that pursuit, and that is indeed the case, since they can't even be bothered to use a map like any decent site. It has nothing to do with "simplistic coding", but with a lack of actual utility in the site. Of course, "simplistic coding" does correlate to that to a certain extent, because you can't create a sophisticated site that shows apartments on a draggable map unless you do some fairly sophisticated coding on both the front and back ends (i.e., you have to do AJAX), but this extends well beyond simple style issues that you seem to be pointing to.
Gonna have to take your word on that one, my web development knowledge is limited to HTML 1 (but I'm learning 5!).
Craigslist isn't like this. It looks like shit, but worse, it performs like shit, because it really isn't very helpful in actually helping you find a place to live.
Again, going to have to take your word for it, never actually used CL for housing searches... We have some pretty good local services that offer printed booklets of rentals in the area, and for home searches, well, you just can't beat MLS.
And now that some sites like PadMapper have sprung up and use CL's data to actually make apartment-hunting easy for people, the assholes at CL are trying to stop them, instead of fixing their shitty site.
I don't know, I kind of understand CL's angle on this... They did the work to gather the data; they live off people visiting their site; therefore, if someone else is using the data CL worked to gather, and uses that data to take page views (read: customers) away from CL, then I feel they have a legitimate complaint*. Anyone scraping CL for content, in order to populate their own site (and subsequently make money off the scraped data) should have to license it from CL, or at the very least, have their listings link directly back to the page on CL they scraped for the info.
*Truth time: I miss the days when the internet wasn't a global sales floor; shit's really gone downhill now that data is marketable...